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‖ mehmandar|ˈmeɪməndɑː(r)|
Forms: 7 mehmander, mehemandar, -er, mammandore, -dar, ma(h)mendar, 9 mehmandar, -daur.
[Pers. mihmāndār, f. mihmān stranger, guest.]
In Persia and India, an official appointed to act as courier to a traveller of distinction.
1623St. Pap. Col., E. Indies 1622–4 (1878) 161 Our mehmander or presenter. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 51 Our Mammandore or Harbinger, prouiding for vs. 1638Ibid. 132 Our Ambassadour..sent his Mammandar to the Governour..to demand fresh horses. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 369 The Mehemandar, who conducts Ambassadors from one Province to another till they come to Court. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 103 The Mahmendar Bassa, Master of the Ceremonies. 1840J. B. Fraser Koordistan I. vi. 172 A dispute between our mehmandar and the villagers regarding a supply of corn for our horses. 1842Elphinstone Caubul I. 29 The necessity..of waiting for a Mehmandaur from his Majesty, to accompany the mission. |